Since then, Rowling has spoken of the dangers of erasing the concept of sex and penned a long follow-up blog on her views.
Some Harry Potter movie stars including the lead trio Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have distanced themselves from her comments, publicly making statements like “Trans women are women. Trans men are men.”
At the start of this year, the Blockbuster series’ trio reunited with other cast members for a Harry Potter 20th anniversary special called Return to Hogwarts.
However, the creator herself was nowhere to be seen as a talking head apart from in archive footage.